C. Scott Hemphill

C. Scott Hemphill is a legal academic whose scholarship focuses on intellectual property law and antitrust law. He is currently a Professor of Law at New York University Law School, where he has taught since 2015. Previously, Hemphill was a Professor of Law at Columbia Law School.

Education and early career Hemphill graduated with an A.B., magna cum laude, in Social Studies from Harvard College in 1994. He then attended the London School of Economics as a Fulbright Scholar and received his M.Sc. in Economics in 1997. Hemphill's scholarship focuses on topics relating to antitrust and intellectual property law, including pharmaceutical patents, network neutrality, copyright, and the fashion industry. The U.S. Supreme Court cited Hemphill's research on "pay-for-delay" pharmaceutical patent settlements in its majority opinion in FTC v. Actavis, Inc.. In June 2014, Hemphill offered testimony regarding patent regulation in the pharmaceutical industry before the House Energy and Commerce Committee.

Hemphill was ranked 59 in the list of the top 100 legal scholars of 2024 curated by researchers at George Mason University. From 2011 to 2012, Hemphill served as the Chief of the Antitrust Bureau in the Office of the Attorney General of the State of New York.

Publications Hemphill's work has been published in the Stanford Law Review, NYU Law Review, Yale Law Journal, and Columbia Law Review, He has also published in Science and has written on the fashion industry (with Harvard Law professor Jeannie Suk) in The Wall Street Journal and Slate.